"Opportunity in a World-class Hydrocarbon Basin: Trinidad and Tobago’s
Eastern Offshore Marine Province"
By: Lesli J. Wood (1) and Carolyn Roberts (2)
(1)Bureau of Economic Geology,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
lesli.wood@beg.utexas.edu
(2)Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries,
Trinidad & Tobago, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
croberts@energy.gov.tt
Published in the June, 2001 Bulletin, posted here, May 27, 2001.
Figure Six
Seismic and line drawing from the minibasin province in Trinidad’s EOM area showing the seismic facies and structure across the area.
Figure Seven
Schematic figure of the interbasin, escape sedimentation processes active across the minibasin tectonomorphic province.
Figure Eight
Seismic line showing piggyback basin from the compressional basin associated with tha Barbados Accretionary Prism illustrating the migrating depocenters characteristic of the piggyback basin type shown
Figure Nine
Schematic figure of the compressional piggyback basin province of the Trinidad eastern offshore marine area.
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